John David Dyche | Harvey Mansfield: Explaining timeless truths

8:04 PM,
Dec. 3, 2012

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John David Dyche

America needs more Harvey C. Mansfield. The 80-year-old government professor who has taught at Harvard for half a century is modern conservatism's leading intellectual. His expertise is political philosophy, some of which this nation now in cultural and fiscal crisis has clearly forgotten.

For some, Mansfield may personify the purported problems with conservatism and the Republican Party. He is old, white and male. Mansfield has even gone so far as to write a book, "Manliness," in praise of that disappearing virtue in our increasingly gender-neutral society.